A few days ago, I made a $100 contribution each to the campaigns for the Republican Senate races in Georgia (Loeffler and Perdue). I made these via the campaign web sites. I got a confirmation/thank-you email for one of them, so I know at least one went through.
Yesterday, I got two email confirmations from "ActBlue". The ActBlue contributions were for $100 each, and were two the campaigns of the Democrat opponents (Warnock and Ossoff) of the two candidates to which I had just contributed. There was also a third contribution, also for $100 via ActBlue, that was split equally between Warnock, Ossoff, and "Fair Fight, Inc. - Federal".
It gets stranger. The person doing this obviously used my email address in the contribution form. They also used my last name and first initial. (So if my name was "Bass Wrangler", they used "B. Wrangler"). The zip code they entered for the contribution is in New Jersey (I am in Washington State).
Anyone have a theory on what the heck is going on here? I guess it could just be a coincidence. I do have a few people with same last name and same first initial that like to use my email address when signing up for stuff. Maybe that's all this is. But it seems a really strange coincidence that they effectively cancelled out my contribution the day after I made it.